Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soviet efforts to minimize the impact of his resignation internationally included a Congress resolution passed overwhelmingly at the end of the debate affirming the continuity of foreign policy . |
| 2 | He said well you 've got to stay to the end I mean , but do n't stay right to the end , you know sort of |
| 3 | Cos we had to repack it you see because it was going to take a it was going to take probably not it was going to go right to the end with this lot on . |
| 4 | The lesson of the Square One Principle is this : the person who has the courage to go back when necessary is the one who goes on in the end . |
| 5 | Bishop Harris , who has welcomed me so warmly , has expressed his willingness to continue on until the end of the year whilst I complete my own duties in Westminster diocese . |
| 6 | We 're just at the beginning of it and this is going to go on till the end of April or May now , it 'll be like this . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , ’ I asked impatiently at the end , ‘ is n't Mrs Reed a bad woman ? |
| 8 | Old age begins officially on retirement but the majority of people in their sixties and many in their seventies remain reasonably fit , independent , active and content and in many cases they will remain so until the end of their lives . |
| 9 | The hardest thing was to discover what grey it should be painted so in the end we just guessed … not an easy thing to do with black and white photographs ! |
| 10 | ‘ Whilst undertaking a textbook undershoot , the aircraft passed gently through the end of a cornfield , then a rather thick hedge , through the rough end of the strip and then hit this ******* great hare , spun round and turned over . |
| 11 | Such a system , based on social class and the old school tie , had never become quite so entrenched across the Atlantic in the first place , and had largely broken down by the end of the 1950s . |
| 12 | Stepping down at the end , he lay on the bed of nails and rolled across it to the foot of the ladder , which he climbed , pausing on each blade to detach a yellow paper prayer flag and send it fluttering to the ground . |
| 13 | Two days later Horst Teltschik ( CDU ) announced that he would be stepping down at the end of the year as Kohl 's foreign policy adviser at the Chancellery . |
| 14 | Birth-rates recovered somewhat by the end of the 1930s ( e.g. to 1.83 in 1939 ) . |
| 15 | The size of the palazzo , and the intricacy of its design ensured a very long building period , the main staircase being completed only at the end of the century , after Alessi 's death . |
| 16 | Er but I mean basically at the end of the day , I mean you have to think about to what extent you can increase your sales . |
| 17 | This is a pity and I 'm afraid it 's a case of your researchers not seeing much beyond the end of their dicks . |
| 18 | Though civilization crumbles , let those who are civilized remain so to the end ! |
| 19 | But I felt guilty about her being in a Home … she just had to go in in the end — and I know it 's the best place , it 's safe and she has company all the time … ’ |
| 20 | She saw him flex his ankle and wince , and she stood up and went over to him , kneeling down on the end of one of the sleeping-bags . |
| 21 | Despite the received view that everyone was watching films like The Battleship Potemkin , Lenin 's vision began to be realised only at the end of the 1920's . |
| 22 | Press on to the end of the cake . |
| 23 | Could n't you hang on till the end of the season ? ’ |
| 24 | He 'd applauded politely at the end of every number , but seemed totally unmoved , and somehow that had made her try all the harder , as though it were imperative that she reach him . |
| 25 | They exchanged brief greetings but one day he was walking slowly past the end of Magdalen Street as she cycled up . |
| 26 | The Thames and Severn , begun in 1783 , was six years later passing thirty-ton barges into the Thames at Inglesham , but even so the river itself remained largely unimproved and in the 1790s manufactured goods from Birmingham for London were still being carried overland from the end of the Oxford Canal . |
| 27 | Glen Ball , the Neath coach and team manager , is to stand down at the end of the season . |
| 28 | Blood had congealed thickly on the end of the smashed fibula . |
| 29 | The commission hoped to have the main services — banking , investment and insurance — all liberalised together at the end of 1992 . |
| 30 | After such a spoilt dreamy flight it is hard not to trample carelessly over the end of the night shift . |